Dressed in Chanel, Gucci, and Donna Karan, and dripping with jewels (real, not costume), Sarandon portrays Liz as a no-nonsense woman who is the equal of any man - including the womanizing Alfie (Jude Law).
SUSAN SARANDON Q&A:
On the Things She Likes About the Film:
One of the things I like about the film is that all the women leave with their dignity intact. Charles [Shyer] was very involved and that’s not always true of every director. In what you show and what you don’t show, that makes every woman distinct and different from each other.
On How Her Character Meets Alfie:
Alfie is driving my car. That’s how we meet. He is a chauffeur and I’ve never met a chauffeur [quite] like Alfie. He's also a one-stop shop in that he manages to give me fashion expertise and encouragement while I am with someone else.
On Working With Jude Law:
Oh poor me! I have to kiss Jude all day. The thing about Jude that is so surprising is he doesn’t have to be nearly as good as he is because of the way he looks. He comes from a theater tradition, so the concept of hard work isn’t alien to him. He’s not someone who is counting his lines, although, he's the entire film!
On Her Character's Relationship With Alfie:
Talking to the camera like that is no easy task. They made it more about having the audience believe that he believes she sees him in a way no one else has, and so that kind of connection can happen on screen no matter the age or gender or race or whatever. And focusing on that as our form of intimacy, we really, now after all the sex has happened, see each other for the first time.
On Jude Law:
He is one of those people who is genuinely a good person and I think that really helps. There is something about him on screen that he can get away with, not because he is slick and gorgeous and funny, but because he has a goodness that reads.
On the Film:
It was really fun to dress up and to have Jude and to have that apartment and be her (Liz) for a while. It was great. But I think that [Alfie] is a good date movie because you can go to it and have a good conversation and think of it the next day. I think that is the most that you can hope for in a movie.
Q&A courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
